Coin wrapping aid



1952 w. A. SCHWALBE 2,612,739

COIN WRAPPING AID Filed April 14 1950 Wlfl.,8chwal2be INVENTOR ATTORNEYS Patented Oct. 7, 1952 FF CE COIN WRAPPING All) William A. Schwalbe, Seattle, Wash. Application April 14, 1950, Serial No. 155,902

2 Claims.

This invention relates The wrapping of a roll of coins in the coin wrapper provided for such purpose quite often presents difficulties, especially to one inexperienced in the performance of this task. The roll of coins must be gripped tightly initially by the thumb, forefinger, and second finger of both hands, with a view to preventing collapse of the roll during the wrapping thereof. As the Wrapping'proceeds, the end pressure initially exerted against the ends of the roll by the second fingers of the users hands must be relaxed and becomes difiicult, because said ends of the roll of coins become recessed in the tube formed by the wrapper. Often times, as the wrapping proceeds almost to its final step of crimping the ends of the paper tube formed by the operation, the roll of coins will collapse endwise, and the operation must be begun all over again.

Another important object of the present invention is to eliminate these difficulties, and to permit one to wrap a roll of coins swiftly and without possibility of collapse of the coins, even where the user of the device is inexperienced.

'Another important object is to provide a device of the type stated which can be manufactured at relatively low cost, will comprise few parts simply arranged so as not to readily get out of order, and will occupy a minimum of space on a desk or counter.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention consists of certain novel details of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter more fully described and pointed out in the claims, it being understood that changes may be made in the construction and arrangement of parts without departing from the spirit of the invention as claimed.

Referring to the drawing:

Figure 1 is a top plan view of a coin wrapping aid formed in accordance with the invention, a roll of coins and a wrapper therefor being illustrated in full lines in their initial positions, said roll and portions of the wrapping device being shown in dotted lines in an intermediate step of the operation.

Fig. 2 is a side elevational view, the full lines indicating the initial position of the parts, and the dotted lines indicating the positions of the parts at an intermediate stage.

Fig. 3 is a section taken substantially on line 33 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings in detail, I provide an elongated generally fiat block I, here shown as rectangular in general configuration, although to a coin wrapping aid.

it could be of other shapes withoutdeparture from thespirit' of the invention; This block can conveniently be formed from a suitable length of wood stock, cut to size and having formedin its uppersurface, adjacent one end thereof, the transverse groove 2 in which is seated at the initial stage of the operation, a roll of coins C to .be wrapped in the conventional wrapper-W. As seen from Fig. 1, the square, end of the wrapper W is disposed adjacent the groove-2, the square end portion of the wrapper being seated in said groove below the roll of coins Cf.

Threaded into the upper surface of the block I in parallelism with the opposite side edges of said block, are the rows of screw eyes .3 providing guides in which are slidable the normally parallel spring arms 4 integrally joined at one end by the cross member 5. The free ends of the spring arms 4 are formed as inturned spring fingers 6 the ends of which are fashioned into loops l that engage and exert axial pressure against opposite ends of the roll of coins C. The spring arms 4, spring fingers S, and cross I member 5 can all be formed, as in the present instance, from a single length of spring, wire material having high tensile characteristics, so as to exert suificient pressure against the ends of the roll of coins, to prevent said roll from collapsing in an endwise direction.

In use, the wrapper W is positioned as in Fig. 1, and the roll of coins C to be wrapped is positioned immediately thereafter. The spring fingers 6 are positioned as in the full lines in Fig. 1, so as to press against opposite ends of the roll of coins.

The user now draws upon the wrapper W so as to provide sufficient material to permit the wrapping of the square end portion, that is the lower end in Fig. 1, completely around the roll of coins C before said roll is rolled out of the groove 2.

At this time, with both hands, using the thumb and first finger of each hand, the user rolls the coins out of the groove, sliding the spring fingers and spring arms with said roll, so that the roll of coins moves to the dotted line position seen in Figs. 1 and 2, while the spring fingers travel with the roll 50 as to move to the dotted line position shown at the left in Fig. 1. The entire U-shaped spring assembly, of course, moves slidably in the screw eyes during this step.

The user now bends one of the spring arms 4 away from the roll and engages it against the side surface of the base I, as shown at the right in Fig. 1.

The side portion of the wrapper W, which has by now been partially formed into a tube, is partially crimped against the exposed end of the roll of coins. At this time the other spring arm 4 is bent outwardly and caught against the side surface of the base, and the rolling is completed, so that the diagonally extended end of the wrapper will bind the crimp firmly.

The wrapped roll of coins is now removed from the device, and the crimped end is jarred upon the supporting'surface' or base of the device, to stay the crimp. The other end is now crimped properly and jarred so that it also will be properly stayed.

Important characteristics of the invention reside in the fact that by the use thereofi'it i's-nolonger necessary for the user tense-three fingers of both hands, manipulating these three fingers during the rolling of the roll of coins in a-manner to hold said roll tight. By use of the device, the roll at coins. is held. against collapse: until all danger of collapse is. eliminated by crimping of one cadet-the roll. In other wordsthe spring fingers 6; serve" the function of pressing the: ends o tlwrolli in a directiorr towardseach other to preventcollapse of the roll, and travel with the roll during the initial wrapping and crimping'of one endio'f'said' roll. The spring fingers are now readily positioned-in anout'. of the way location to'complete-wrapping ofi the roll and final crimpingthereof.

What is claimed is:

1 A coin wrapping'device' comprisingan elongated substantially" rectangular base having a substantially flat upper surface, said base-having a shallow transverseIy extending groove opening through its upper side adjacent one end thereof, guides mounted on the base remote from the groove and proj ecting' upwardly from the base ad- Jacentopposite sides thereof, spaced substantially parallel spring arms mounted in said guides to move longitudinally with relation to the base,,inwardly extending fingers carried by the ends of the arms adjacent the groove, saidfingers being adapted to engage opposite. ends. of a stack of coins seated in said groove and exert pressure on said coins, and a cross bar carried by the arms at the ends thereof remote from the fingers to cause said arms and fingers to move in unison as the stack of coins held in the groove between the fingers is rolled out of said groove and along the base.

2. A coin wrapping device comprising an elongated substantially rectangular base having a substantially fiat upper: surface, said base having a shallow' transversely extending groove opening through its upper side adjacent one end thereof, longitudinally spaced guides mounted on the base remotefrom the groove and projecting upwardly from the base adjacent opposite sides thereof,

substantially parallel spring arms mounted in saidguidesto. move longitudinally relative to the base, inwardly extending fingers carried by the ends of the arms adjacent the groove, said fingers being adapted to engage coins at opposite ends at a stack. of. coins seated in saidgroove-and to:exe-rt pressure on said coins to hold them tightly compressed one against the other, a'crossbar carried. by the arms atthe ends: thereof remote from the fingers: whereby said armsandfingers will movein unison as a stack of coins held. in the groove between the fingers is rolled outor said groove and along the base, and the guides nearest the. groove exerting. inward pressure on the arms as the stack of coins moves out of the groove in. the direction of the guides to thereby increase the. pressure of the fingerson the coins.

WILLIAM A. SCHWALBE.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of. record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name. Date 852,57 l Norrington May 7,, 1907' 1,134,687 Lukacher Apr. 6,. 1915 Schneider Dec;. 5-, 1950 

